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Image Fulgurator, by Julius Von Bismarck, is the winner of the Golden Nica in Interactive Arts at Ars Electronica 2008.
A wonderful idea that trough a reverse engineering of the idea of photography transforms a camera into a projector.

Constant Dullaart, an artist from Holland, has realized a series of ironic video on the image of the arrow-in-a-square button that appears in every embedded YouTube video.

The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art with the urban and social environment.
It’ll be all over Milan from 12 till 14 of july.
The festival removes the technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation re-positioning it as open and reflexive in the public domain. The artworks have site-specific thematic relations to the space where they are shown, engaging and reflecting upon the unique architectural, historical, and interpersonal context of each area the festival travels to.

One of the aims of the festival is to create a continuous dialogue from the videos into the community, focusing on lapses in the current framework such as an absence of communication or invisible components of the area. Open to local and international artists, the festival widens the panorama of the discourse to include the perspective of communities elsewhere that have parallel circumstances.

A self-contained, transportable GPU (Guerrilla Projector Unit) facilitates the incursions into the public realm. Transforming public space into a fertile ground for experimentation toward new possibilities in the relationship between art and society.

In this moment of analogization of the digital, or as you want of revaluation of the “retro”, there’s a growing interest for mechanical machines: the exhibition of Sonar Matica 2008 was all about recovering different kinds of pre-cinema technologies, GOGBOT 2008’s theme is Steampunk and on 12 th of july there’ll be Mechanicrawl in San Francisco.

Mechanicrawl is realized by the Long Now Foundation. The attractions involved are: The USS Pampanito, SS Jeremiah O’Brien, Musée Mécanique, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, The Long Now Foundation, and The Exploratorium.

Alexander Rose introducing Mechanicrawl.

From the 29th of may to the 11th of june 2008, in the Macello IV of the Mattatoio (Slaughterhouse) of Testaccio in Rome, the LPM – Live Performers Meeting will take place: the international meeting of live video performers, visual artists and vjs is back with a new edition, the fifth.

The 2007 edition had 295 artists registered from the following countries: France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Poland, United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Argentina, Portugal, Mexico, Macedonia, Israel, Lithuania, Australia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Algeria. There were more than 26.000 visitors during the 4 days of the meeting and the pre-view at “Palazzo delle Esposizioni”.

This edition will be in a special space, the Macello IV of the Mattatoio of Testaccio, one of the hystorical pavilions built by Gioacchino Ersoch between the 1888 and the 1891: more than 900 mq, perfect for satisfying the needs of the Meeting, that has developed more contents and has now a larger number of adhesion recquests and audience.

LPM suggests again the 4-day long formula. There will be interaction between the audience and the happenings on stage:: this exchange between the actions of the spectators and the “represented” actions will generate a unique event. Beside that the program will be full of workshops and showcases of projects, softwares and brand new products.
The LIVE VIDEO is obviously the main subject of the 4 days,characterized by the diversity of the considered themes and the various realties that will participate:

DIGITAL FREEDOMS
At the core of LPM is the ideology of free software for audio/video mixing. Thanks to the community of “FLxER” and the Linux Club in Rome, LPM has been able to flourish and give back to worldwide community of live video performers. This year there will be a whole day dedicated to the realities of live video connected with the concept of digital freedom.Not just Free softwares, Free hardwares, Open contents, Open sources, Hacking, among the protagonists of workshops, showcases, performances and vjsets, but even DegradArte: workshops, vj sets and live performances “degraded”, produced by Degradarte Novalab and ArtisOpenSource. These artists are inspired by the new current of scientific, tecnologic and aesthetic research , dedicated to the study of the “legally degraded artwork”.

8 BIT + ELETTROPOP
The video performers interested in the most particular and underground sounds of the general electronic-music concept(that is a common interest of all participants) will perform with 8-bit – and electropop-muiscians: the beats are generated by nintendo sounds , by samplers or by synthetizers and toys, and human voices are effected with vocoders or with various strange filters.The atmosphere will be “light and playful”, in order to amuse audience and participants.

BREAKBEAT + TECHNO + ELECTRO
Video performances and vj sets flow with the intense sounds and the persisting beats of electronic club music.The images are “moving” ready to enliven the dance floor ,following and interpreting the rythmn of the freshest Breakbeat and Drum n’bass, and from 2am to 4am going with the pulsating Techno and Electro sounds.

VISUAL GENDERS
A full day of Queer independent culture with the QUEER JUBILEE preview by the Phag Off Collective. This festival within the LPM is a manifestation of a project which is working on a national and international level to experiment with the language of representation in terms of gender politics and sexual orientations with the aim of deconstructing stereotypes and ideological power relationships.

There will be background videos and music for dinner, and after dinner dedicated AV performances and vjsets. As usual, at the end of the evening, open time for VJs will take place: vjs can perform freely, taking advantage of the available video consoles, projectors and monitors.

LPM 2008 maintains the spirit of a meeting, which has been its main characteristic since the first edition. It is conceived to be a place for comparison and exchange of information and ideas between vjs, visual artists, live-video performers and interested people. Experimentation is one of the founding elements of its ideology. All the gained funds will be invested in the most innovative technologies, in order to support research in the live visual field.

Similarity of ideals and common roots has prompted the LPM to become member of the Avit network, whose aim is to improve and promote the culture of veejaying events worldwide. After the first festivals in England, the Avit network expanded worldwide, establishing collaborations as in C23 in Germany (AVIT Berlin) and Vision’r in France (AVIT France) and LPM in Italy. This partnership of “network” and “meeting” is possible thanks to the common cultural background and the strong affinity of spirit and purposes.

LPM is not a festival, it is an opportunity of meeting and of making yourself an idea of what visual-artists are creating or better, what they could create. Therefore, and in order to allow the many interesting artists to perform, the maximum length of a performance is 30 minutes.

The subscription to join LPM is FREE and is open now until the 15th of April, 2008. For details on how to subscribe, see the “participate” section of the website.

LPM is produced by Flyer Communication, organized by FLxER.net, with thanks to the cooperation of our international partners.

Sito web
http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net

Location
Mattatoio di Testaccio – Macello IV
L.go Giovanni Battista Marzi 10 – Roma

PLANETART, Kees de Groot and Viola van Alpen, organized METAL HEARTH II, it happened from the 10th till the 18th of may. The subtitle of the festival is the Aesthetics of Evil. The selection of the project was really focused but open any format of media, and the curated a really interesting and inspiring show. Here there are posted some photos to give an idea.

Jonas Staal

Mmm… (Mean meat machine)

Virtual Worlds, with interactive worlds

Hans van Bentam

Exhibition the Aesthetics of Evil

..and if you want to look more click here.

‘After The Net’
Observatori: 9th Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de
Valencia
6 – 29 June 2008, Valencia, Spain.

Deadline for submission >> 18 May 2008
Announcement of selected works >> 20 May 2008
Submission of works >> http://open.kurator.org/

openKURATOR is seeking existing online projects that address the theme of the exhibition ‘After The Net’, dealing with issues of un/openness, in/security, un/stability and systems of control. Five selected works will be displayed online as part of the exhibition and will receive a fee of 200 euros each.

The exhibition takes the documentary ‘The Net‘ by Lutz Dammbeck (2004) as a starting point to consider two competing responses to the cybernetic revolution. On the one hand, there is an emphasis on the utopian promises of global networking and instantaneous communication, and on the other, an emphasis on intrusive systems of technological control. Like the film, the exhibition ‘After The Net’ aims to expose the hidden matrix of revolutionary advances, coincidences, and conspiracies – reflecting the architecture of networks. It explores some of the historical roots of technological open systems in relation to ethics, and reworks them to reactivate some of the founding principles of hacker ethics.

openKURATOR is an open submission and presentation platform developed by KURATOR for Observatori 2008.

Submission of works >> http://open.kurator.org/

All Street Artists Around the world are welcomed to support the Event with sending their hand made / Printed stickers for the combo. Event page : http://www.kolahstudio.com/KSC

Address:
P.O.box: 15875 / 6935
Tehran 15875 / IRAN